Stable release promoting the entire `beta` channel to `main`. Brings
~300 commits of features, fixes, and infrastructure improvements that
have been baked on the beta channel since v2.6.5.
## Major themes since v2.6.5
* Multi-administrator support with RBAC (super admin / admin / editor)
* Async upload pipeline (background worker pool for sharp/ffmpeg/EXIF/
watermark/webhooks; bytes-on-wire returns 202)
* Self-hosted webfonts (filesystem-driven scanner; replaces Google Fonts
CDN; GDPR-compliant)
* 8-token CI palette + force color mode (full theming across admin and
public site, with WCAG-safe contrast helpers)
* Native multi-arch Docker images (Apple Silicon + ARM64 Linux native)
* Native S3 storage backend (S3 + S3-compatible providers)
* Comprehensive video support (MP4/WebM/MOV upload, stream, play)
* Outbound webhooks for event/photo lifecycle (HMAC-signed)
* Gallery layout overhaul (decoupled header style, banner option,
theme-aware skeletons, lazy-loaded folder tree picker)
* Multilingual email templates (EN/DE/NL/PT/RU translations table)
* Bulk operations (delete with password gate, archive)
* Photo dimensions backfill (true masonry layout)
* Customer client access (review area before guest share)
* Image security (devtools detection, watermarking, right-click,
secure thumbnails)
## Notable bug fixes from beta
* `/auth/session` symmetry — three rounds of fixes (#350, #355, #363,
#398) for the admin-login redirect-loop family
* Email template renderer: handle {{#if}} conditionals, fix CSS leak in
plain-text fallback, gate publish-from-draft password placeholder,
gate external_url in public response
* Caller/template variable drift across gallery_created,
expiration_warning, archive_complete, gallery_expired
* Full-URL gallery_link in all email types (was path-only in 3 sites)
* ffmpeg/ffprobe via apk for Alpine compatibility (was glibc-bundled)
* Admin events search and counters not bounded to first 100 (#346)
## Conflict resolution notes
* `README.md` — kept main's leaner v2.6.5 rewrite (#281); added a
Contributors section adapted from PR #393.
* `DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.md` — beta version (more recent, includes External
Media docs already backported to main).
* `CHANGELOG.md` — new 3.42.1 entry leads, beta's 3.x history follows,
main's 2.x entries appended below a divider so the historical chain
is preserved.
* `package.json` (backend + frontend) — beta's structure with version
bumped from `3.42.1-beta.0` → `3.42.1`.
* `package-lock.json` (backend + frontend) — regenerated via
`npm install --package-lock-only`.
* `.release-please-manifest.json` — bumped from `2.6.5` → `3.42.1` so
the next release-please run on main starts from the correct base.
## Pre-flight checks
* Frontend `tsc --noEmit` — clean
* Frontend `vite build` — clean (~3.5s, 2.6 MB main chunk; existing
warning about chunking, not new)
* Backend `npm test` — pre-existing failures in 6 integration suites
(DB-fixture-dependent, not regressions)
* Frontend `vitest` — pre-existing failures in
ThemeCustomizerEnhanced.test.tsx (missing QueryClientProvider after
PR #390 added useQuery; not a regression of this merge)
The pre-existing test failures are tracked as separate follow-ups and
do not block this release promotion.
Axios versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 were compromised on March 31, 2026
with a RAT dropper attributed to North Korean threat actor. Pin to
exact 1.14.0 (latest safe release) to prevent resolution to compromised
versions. See https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10604
Axios versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 were compromised on March 31, 2026
with a RAT dropper (plain-crypto-js) attributed to North Korean threat
actor UNC1069/Sapphire Sleet. The malicious versions have been removed
from npm but our ^1.12.2 range could have pulled 1.14.1 on next install.
Pin to exact version 1.14.0 (latest safe release) in both frontend and
backend package.json and lock files to prevent any future resolution to
compromised versions.
References:
- https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10604
- https://snyk.io/blog/axios-npm-package-compromised-supply-chain-attack-delivers-cross-platform/
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